Can I just say, what bugs me most about this cake is not the freaky multiple-leg design (I'm used to freaky on cake wrecks) but the fact that ONE- just ONE - of the legs is going in the opposite direction of all the others. If you're going to go to the trouble to hand-mold a bunch of (fairly well done) fondant legs, wouldn't you make the effort to put them on the cake correctly?

Wow! Although I often marvel at the "wonders" presented here at Cake Wrecks, I've never felt the need to post a comment before. I am simply awestruck at not only the hideousness of the cake and the frightening dismemberment but Jen's ability to find abominations from all corners of the globe for our entertainment. Bravo!!!Toni

What I'm confused about is why one leg is facing the wrong way?Are they marzipan legs, or fondant? If they were marzipan I'd eat them all!

Another thing, "Footlight Parade", that poster is freaky looking! I don't think even the real dancers had legs that freakishly long!I also would have been 'weirded out' by the fact that James Cagney was in it, until I saw a documentary on him recently and discovered he actually got his start as a dancer, not a gangster, in the movies!:)

Listening to my husband, BIL and SILs, I can see this cake appearing as a "thanks for all that you left us of our barbie dolls back when we were kids!" as my husband and his brother did toss the girls' dolls up into the drop ceiling and they'd never return with all of their limbs. Yup... perfect cake for them!

Whoa. Maybe it's a tribute to the three-legged emblem used by the Isle of Man and Sicily, but...more flamboyant, to salute the resilience of amputee showgirls? Whichever way you throw this cake, it stands!

Busby Berkeley? I'm going to concentrate really hard on production numbers best appreciated from above the stage, because all I see is a red cake covered in women's severed legs, and I wonder if there's a serial killer running a bakery in Vienna. Kind of like Sweeney Todd lived above the pie shop?

Creepy AND really well made! What are the chances of that happening? (again)

The legs are gorgeous, really. Creepy as all get out since there are so many and they're not attached to anybody, but still... really well made. I can't even begin to fathom what kind of order came in to produce such a thing.

gives new meaning to the question, "Who wants a leg?" formerly attributed to serving turkey.

what's the occasion for this thing? valentine's day? (red roses, etc.) or maybe they misunderstand our Christmas movies over there in Europe and they think it's a way to celebrate the holiday based on the "Major Award" leg lamp in "A Christmas Story"

wow. I'm impressed with you people. This cake is like a Rorshach ink blot to the psyche.

Some see serial killer victims (trophies), some see can-can dancers, some see strippers, other see flags for Broadway shows or the Isle of Man (I'm getting quite an education, here!), others see the major award leg lamp, others see mutilated Barbie dolls (these people have probably had therapy from the teasing of older brothers), still others see it a a celebratory cake for someone getting a prosthetic limb...

There is a space creature on the old Muppet Show with legs that run in circles, sort of like they're pivoting and/or on a wheel. But it had fuzzy, Muppety legs, so this is just the regular kind of freaky, I guess, and not of the Jim Henson-sponsored variety.

My first reaction wasn't that it was an odd cake and I didn't question the subject matter. The first thing I noticed was why in the world would someone not make sure all the feet were pointing in the same direction? That's just messed up.

I've had a pretty terrible day and was just about to go to bed when I remembered I hadn't gotten my daily dose of wreckage. So, I wandered on over hoping for a laugh, and was definitely rewarded for the trouble :) Thanks for all the punny, wrecktastic times Jen and John!

It's definitely not appetizing, that's for sure. But well made, nonetheless. No wonder so many are so confused about life...which came first: the confusion or the leg cake? Thus we have: confused people baking cakes = wreckatators galore.

Many years ago, I received one of those wierd black and white birthday cards, which had a group of pigs in birthday hats and the words "nothing says happy birthday quite like a cake in the shape of your nose!" However, I think that could be changed to "legs"!

I bet this cake helped them get a "leg-up" on the other bakeries in the area and really "kick-started" their business. At the very least, it must have helped them get their "foot in the door" of a highly competitive Austrian cake-wreck market.

I am loving the biker babies! But wait.... Are those carrots?! Oh well, they ARE only babies... I just loved reading your book "Cake Wrecks" and I wanted to find your blog... My mom and I love that book! The whole family thought it was hilarious! Jeez, pretty mucha great blogging inspiration!

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